Joni Mitchell Quotes

Joni Mitchell (30)

Birth:	7th November, 1943
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Director, Lyricist, Musician, Painter, Singer

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Births

• 1908 - James Stewart
• 1971 - Tony Stewart
• 1806 - John Stuart Mill
• 1799 - Honoré de Balzac
• 1945 - Wally Herger

Deaths

• 1831 - Henri Gregoire
• 1732 - Thomas Boston
• 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould
• 1975 - Barbara Hepworth
• 1782 - William Emerson

• You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n’ roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn’t roll. He has got no swing in him.

  Joni Mitchell

• You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

  Joni Mitchell

• You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining.

  Joni Mitchell

• With a painting, you don’t have to go back and paint it again.

  Joni Mitchell

• When you’re trying to pass on the best of the stuff you’re culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished… that’s kind of disappointing.

  Joni Mitchell

• We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

  Joni Mitchell

• We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

  Joni Mitchell

• This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

  Joni Mitchell

• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

  Joni Mitchell

• There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

  Joni Mitchell

• The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don’t think this is heavy.

  Joni Mitchell

• Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

  Joni Mitchell

• Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

  Joni Mitchell

• Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

  Joni Mitchell

• Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

  Joni Mitchell

• No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.

  Joni Mitchell

• My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

  Joni Mitchell

• Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

  Joni Mitchell

• I’ve got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

• I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

  Joni Mitchell